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Subject: 
Re: Secret Agent Theme for 2001? (was: Re: New S@H Catalog)
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Thu, 7 Sep 2000 13:38:40 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, James Powell writes:

I'm sure it would be perfectly nice... until you passed over a SAM battery.

I'll take a good ol' SR-71 any day. :^D

   IIRC, the SR-71 fleet has been retired completely.
   Surely there's something replacing it, but nobody's
   100% sure what it is (Aurora or something else?)...

Hey, just two simple words: Martin Rusk (sp).

(the kid who flew the cessna 172 into moscow in the 80's)

<sp-response>
Matthias Rust.  Anyone know where he is now?  (Probably flying
jumbo jets for KAL, knowing fate's sense of irony.)
</sp-response>

How is that for a answer????

It's OK, I'll grant you, but what about the Byelorussians who
fired missiles at a balloon that floated over their territory?
"It could be a deadly circus clown plot!"

heh.

   LFB



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  Re: Secret Agent Theme for 2001? (was: Re: New S@H Catalog)
 
(...) Hey, just two simple words: Martin Rusk (sp). (the kid who flew the cessna 172 into moscow in the 80's) How is that for a answer???? James P (24 years ago, 6-Sep-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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